Trudi Canavan Quotations

'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

I don't have any specific plans to return to the 'Age of the Five.' If I do, it won't be a sequel.

'The Black Magician Trilogy' was about a conflict between countries and was very limited and almost claustrophobic in its range of settings, while 'The Age of the Five' was about a conflict between continents.

I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.

Tayend nodded. “I know it won’t. I admit I was worried about you, but you are still your old self, underneath.” Dannyl straightened in protest. “Underneath what?” The Elyne stood up, waving one hand in Dannyl’s direction. “All…that.” “I’m reeling at your descriptive clarity,” Dannyl told him.

There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.